Sep 15
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Are we really dead to sin.
The word reckon is the same word that is translated impute or account.
The sins of the elect were imputed to Christ. They became His. He became
guilty before God. He was actually made sin. And He really died for the
sins that had become His. He paid the debt of our sins. And just as
truly as the sins of the elect were imputed to Him, His perfect
righteousness is imputed to them. Just as literally as our sin became
His, His righteousness became ours. We are literally “the righteousness
of God in Him.” Since our sin was reckoned to Him, and His righteousness
reckoned to us, we reckon ourselves to be dead to sin, because we really
are! If He really died, then we really are dead to sin. If He really did
rise from the dead then we really are alive to God through our Lord
Jesus Christ. We are not required to feel this, but we are required to
believe it! Todd Nibert.